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Directly Connected CNA Best Practice

FCoE Best Practices

Directly Connected CNA Best Practice
The following figure shows a best practices topology for an access network using directly connected CNAs
with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches.
Figure 41: Directly Connected CNA
Follow these configuration best practices for the deployment topology in the preceding figure:
1 You must configure a unique dedicated VLAN at every converged access switch to carry traffic for each
Virtual Fabric (VSAN) in the SAN (for example, VLAN 1002 for VSAN 1, VLAN 1003 for VSAN 2,
and so on). If you enable MST, you must use a separate MST instance for FCoE VLANs.
2 You must configure the unified fabric (UF) links as trunk ports. Do not configure the FCoE VLAN as a
native VLAN. You must configure all FCoE VLANs as members of the UF links to allow extensions for
VF_Port trunking and VSAN management for the virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
A unified fabric link carries both Ethernet and FCoE traffic.
Note
3 You must configure the UF links as spanning-tree edge ports.
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